running the risk of being descended upon in the dark and caught in the cross harries crosses the line. two days after my column the washington post reading about trayvon martin remind me of a list of don't in new jersey. and when that was replaced with a reality in newark when my mother remarried. >> don't run in public. don't run while carrying anything in your hand lest someone think you stole something. don't talk back to the police lest they give you a reason to take to you jail or worst. weekend anchor don lemon who covered the case extenively told "the new york times" there is a certain degree of understanding who comes from minorities just because we've lived it. all of us are black nen our 30's and 40's, all of us born after the civil rights movement. all of us saw mass incarceration of black men. all of us were part of the crack epidemic and the war on drugs. all of us are of that age and what happened to this particular case if we did not have the platform that is we have? another issue is partisan influence. on march 23 responded to a request for comment, president obama ca